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Tour Art-Filled Pacific Heights Home of Nora and Norman Stone

September 9, 2016

ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST | Vicky Lowry:

From the outside, the stately house on a prime hilltop block in Pacific Heights, the gold coast of San Francisco, couldn’t be more traditional. Devised in 1927 by one of the city’s most prominent architects, Arthur Brown Jr., the classically appointed Beaux Arts residence features a handsome redbrick-and-limestone façade capped with a slate roof whose fish-scale tiles mimic the gentle arches of the windows below. The only hint that the interiors, not to mention the homeowners, are anything but staid is the plaster bust of a Greek god crowned with a vivid blue glass sphere perched behind one of those windows… Read more

Image: The Stones beside a sculpture by Pat Lenz at their San Francisco residence: Douglas Friedman